Books

1,500 copies of their photobook ‘I’ve Lived in East London for 86 ½ Years’ turned up with marks on the back, so the East London publisher is bringing joy to ‘Blue Monday’ by distributing them in the capital for free

The borough’s bookshops are increasingly staging events to get readers off Amazon, out of their houses and through their doors. We preview a few such bashes in this look at the lay of the literary land

A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”